Professional Development IV

Program Description:

The Process Operations program curriculum is provided by Itasca Community College (ICC) and was created utilizing existing ICC course curriculum where possible, e.g., industrial math, technical writing, physics, etc. The Process Operations curriculum was created with emphasis on the technical and hands-on skills required for process technicians.

The specialized course development was divided into the following three areas: Process Fundamentals, Industrial Technologies, & Professional Development. Professional Development includes the following courses:

• Professional Development II: Industrial work teams and individual responsibilities
• Professional Development III : Introduction to Root Cause Failure Analysis and Industrial Quality Control concepts
• Professional Development IV: Documenting the Capstone Project

Course Description:

ENGT 2330 Process Operations Professional Development IV is intended to introduce students to the communication, professional, and teamwork skills necessary to “research, develop and submit in report and presentation format(s)” the capstone project to industry partners. It is the third in a series of courses on professional development.

Course goals and outcomes include:

• Students will be able to collect and analyze data in an organized way to develop appropriate solutions for the capstone project.
• Students will be able to communicate all written and oral work in a professional manner.
• Students will comply with safety rules and operational/procedural protocols when working in the laboratory, at the industrial partner facility, or with other process simulators and demonstrations.
• Students will learn and operate various current technologies utilized in the process industry.

Course Contents:

Course materials include a course syllabus, a program overview document, a student competency document, and a performance expectations document. The 1-page Process Operations Program Overview document includes information about the National Science Foundation grant project that resulted in the development of this curriculum.

The 3-page syllabus includes a course description, fundamental goals and outcomes, course scope, performance expectations, and more.

The student competency documents include information about each unit of the course, including outcomes, lectures, demonstrations, labs, and homework. 

Below is a list of the files included in the .zip attachment. The size of each file is included in parenthesis.

Professional IV (4 files, 105 KB)

• Student Performance Expectations (Student Performance Expectations.docx 17 KB)
• Student Competency 1 (Professional IV Competancy 1_Capstone Project.docx 60 KB))
• Process Operations Professional IV Syllabus (Process Operations Professional IV Syllabus Rev C.docx 28 KB)
• NSF Grant READ ME – Process Operations Program Overview (NSF Grant READ ME.docx 13 KB)